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JOHN GOEDART. 

 This distinguished naturalist was born at Middle- 

 burg in Holland, in 1620. He was a sedulous 

 observer of the nature and properties of insects, 

 which he examined with admirable patience and 

 sagacity. His work, which was written in Dutch, 

 was published at Middleburg in 1662, with the title 

 Descriptions of the Origin, Species, Qualities, and 

 Metamorphoses of Worms, Caterpillars, &c. Being 

 a painter by profession, he adorned it with very 

 accurate coloured engravings. The treatise was also 

 printed in Latin and French translations. The 

 former bore this title : — Metamorphosis et Histo- 

 ria Naturalis Insectorum, cum Commentario Jo. 

 de Mey et duplici ejusd. Appendice, una de He- 

 merobiis, altera de Natura Cometarum. An im- 

 proved edition, in the English language, was pub- 

 lished by Lister in 1682; and another, in Latin, 

 in which the species were methodically disposed, 

 appeared in 1685, under the care of the same na- 

 turalist, who had the work reprinted a third time 

 as an appendix to his Historia Animalium Anglise. 

 Goedart describes 150 different species, and may 

 be considered as the first who subjected the meta- 

 morphoses of insects to accurate examination. He 

 died in 1668. 



FRANCIS REDI. 

 The principal works of this eminent physician, hav- 

 ing any reference to zoology, are on the generation of 

 insects, on the poison of the viper, and on intestinal 

 worms. His observations and experiments were trans- 

 lated from the Italian into Latin, and published at 



